Could the cat be avoiding me now I'm pregnant?

[ninedragons]

I'm six months along so I'm sure I'm not imagining this. Our cat pretty much refuses to have anything to do with me. When I get home from work he doesn't come to the door to greet me (as he used to every day), he won't lie anywhere near me on the sofa (again, he used to do this), and he's been a lot more affectionate and clingy with my husband.

Has anyone had experience of this? The only explanation for his behaviour that we can come up with is that either I smell different now I'm pregnant with all the hormones, or possibly that he can hear the baby's heart beating and finds it disturbing.

I think they can sense it. Mine (one of three and previously the most affectionate towards me) has gone a bit mad. She keeps getting dd's doll out of the toy cot and biting her head. I think she's trying to tell me something.

I had the opposite. The only time th ecat sits on my lap is when I am pregnant. With DD the cat would purr, the baby would kick which set off the purring more and then the kicking more....

Thanks ladies. I think the cat might just be psychic.

Today I didn't see him coming through the door as I was closing it and squashed his head (hard) between the door and the jamb. I hope this doesn't mean I'm going to be a bad mother...

animals can sense pregnancy. We only took a test with DS2 because the house rabbit was being wierd!

Ive always got on well with cats, but when I was pregnant thwey seemed to go out of their way to come to me! Im sure they can sense or smell something.

My own cat always sat on my lap then, now she sits by my side. You would think she would prefer not to be booted off by a rolling baby!

I always think our cats can tell when we are ill, but they are being very affectionate now that I am pregnant! - Not avoiding me at all.

I'm sure they can sense it. Dogs too. When I returned from the hospital after ds1 was born, my dog backed away from me in horror. (I had showered, honest.)

yes,my cats sense when i'm upset/sick etc.
one of them never left me alone during all three of my pregnancies.she used to lie with her ear against my belly!!! very comforting though.